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[编辑] GRE 红宝书

  • n. 肋骨, 伞骨
  • [英] n. 肋骨; 伞骨 ( one of the stiff strips supporting an umbrella's fabric)
  • [类] organ : kidney / bone : rib ( 肾是一种器官 / 肋骨是一种骨骼)
  • [例] the ribs of an umbrella ( 雨伞的伞骨)

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I. noun

  • Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ribb; akin to Old High German rippi rib, Old Church Slavic rebro, and probably to Greek erephein to roof over
  • Date: before 12th century
  • 1.
    • a. any of the paired curved bony or partly cartilaginous rods that stiffen the walls of the body of most vertebrates and protect the viscera
    • b.
      • (1) a cut of meat including a rib — see beef illustration
      • (2) a boneless cut of meat (as beef or pork) from a rib section
    • c. \[from the account of Eve's creation from Adam's rib in Genesis 2:21-22\] wife
  • 2. something resembling a rib in shape or function: as
    • a.
      • (1) a traverse member of the frame of a ship that runs from keel to deck
      • (2) a light fore-and-aft member in an airplane's wing
    • b. one of the stiff strips supporting an umbrella's fabric
    • c. one of the arches in Romanesque and Gothic vaulting meeting and crossing one another and dividing the whole vaulted space into triangles
  • 3. an elongated ridge: as
    • a.
      • (1) a vein of an insect's wing
      • (2) one of the primary veins of a leaf
    • b. one of the ridges in a knitted or woven fabric

II. transitive verb (ribbed; ribbing)

  • Date: circa 1547
  • 1. to furnish or enclose with ribs
  • 2. to knit so as to form vertical ridges in
  • ? ribber noun

III. noun

  • Etymology: [sup]4[/sup]rib
  • Date: 1929
  • 1. joke
  • 2. parody

IV. transitive verb (ribbed; ribbing)

  • Etymology: probably from [sup]1[/sup]rib; from the tickling of the ribs to cause laughter
  • Date: 1930
  • to poke fun at ; kid
  • ? ribber noun


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